Making Speech Technologies Available in (Serviko) Romani Language

被引：0

作者：

Rusko, Milan ^{[1
]}

Darjaa, Sakhia ^{[1
]}

Trnka, Marian ^{[1
]}

Zeman, Villam ^{[2
]}

Glovna, Juraj ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Informat, Dubravska Cesta 9, Bratislava 84507, Slovakia

[2] Govt Slovak Republ Romanies, Off Plenipotentiary, Bratislava 81339, Slovakia

[3] Univ Constantinus, Philosopher Nitra, Nitra 94907, Slovakia

来源：

TEXT, SPEECH AND DIALOGUE, PROCEEDINGS | 2008年 / 5246卷

关键词：

Romani language; speech technologies; Romani speech synthesis;

D O I：

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中图分类号：

TP18 [人工智能理论];

学科分类号：

081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;

摘要：

The language of Romanies seems not to be commercially interesting, for big companies. Not only the majority of people from Roma community are very poor, but the language itself is very difficult to work oil, because if is extremely rich in local dialects and the standardized form that would be accepted by majority of Romanies does not exist. The Romani language belongs to the "digitally endangered languages". The paper gives a short description of Romani language in Slovakia. An effort to design basic tools needed to start using Romani speech and language in computer technologies is presented. As the authors are familiar with Speech synthesis, they have chosen building several types of speech synthesizers in Romani as a pilot project. The paper shortly summarizes some facts on Romani orthography. phonetics, and prosody. The design of text Corpus, diphone set, and speech database is described. The application part of the paper presents Romani synthesizers - both diphone and unit-selection. sonic of which are bilingual (Romani-Slovak). The demo of the synthesis can be tried oil the authors' web-page.

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页码：501 / +

页数：2